{"product_id":"9781429925754","title":"Death of an Angel: A True Story of a Vicious Triple-Murder that Broke the Heart of a Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen prosperous lawyer Ernest Brendel mysteriously disappeared, along with his wife Alice, and their 8-year-old daughter Emily, friends in the close-knit Rhode Island neighborhood worried that family had been kidnapped. It would be agonizing months in a massive FBI search before they would know the heartbreaking truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shaken community began to lose hope that the family would ever be found alive. Their worst fears were confirmed when heavy rains from a tropical storm uncovered Alice and Ernest Brendel's badly decomposed bodies--shot with a giant crossbow, strangled, and buried in the quiet woods of the town. Lying under her mother's corpse was little Emily's lifeless body, now a silent witness to her killer's shocking identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a hand pointing from the grave, the evidence led authorities to one of Ernest Brendel's closest and most trusted friends. What Ernest couldn't have known was that Christopher Hightower--a Sunday school teacher and respected member of the community--was a psychotic liar obsessed with greed, jealousy, and murderous revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141695717616,"sku":"9781429925754","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429925754_p0.jpg?v=1769901984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429925754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}